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by Michael Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Walter Harrison is a twenty something owner of an apartment building, Harrison's Palace, which he inherited from his father, as a patronizing gift to remind Walter of the disappointment he has become. Walter carries the burden of feeling ostracized by his fellow African Americans and internalizes...
Making Black Los Angeles
Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only twelve Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following seventy years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles...
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens
Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless...
by Diane Kersey
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Recipes from the “big cities” in South Africa. Don’t worry, they don’t start with “Kill and field-dress a Cape Buffalo.” Most of the ingredients can be found in the average kitchen.South Africa has a history of foreign “visitors” and occupiers. Notably it was a colony of Holland...
by Dahlia & Marlène
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
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Recipes African preparations are absolutely details and characteristics of the territory, which symbolize, along with the ingredients and cooking methods, the deep gastronomic culture of this wonderful as magical and fascinating nation of the World. Usually Recipes African ingredients...
Making Black History
The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey...
Yes, I Am Your Brother
Understanding the Indigenous African American Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Muslims and African Americans are the two most misunderstood groups in America today, yet both groups have been a part of American life from its beginning. Today, it is the African American that most represents the aspirations of both groups. They are a new peoplea people who have overcome a history...
by Eyamidé E. Lewis-Coker
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Proverbs, parables, and wise sayings are meaningful short sayings or vehicles through which morals are transmitted to adults, youths, and children. They are life experiences that Africans utilized to understand their past and present lives. These means of expressions are vital to the African culture...
A Story of Resilience
Immigration, Migration and Trauma of Sub-Sahara African Women in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
In this book, I weave together personal stories of my struggles growing up in an African culture at a time when education for girls was given little consideration, and there were stories of the traumas of surviving a political coup and a violent relocating, with stories of other women who experienced...
African American Jeremiad Rev
Appeals For Justice In America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Begun by Puritans, the American jeremiad, a rhetoric that expresses indignation and urges social change, has produced passionate and persuasive essays and speeches throughout the nation's history. Showing that black leaders have employed this verbal tradition of protest and social prophecy in a way...
Living through the Hoop
High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
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When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the National Basketball Association draft of 2003, the hopes of a half-million high school basketball players soared. If LeBron could go straight from high school to the NBA, why couldn’t...
Talking at Trena's
Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class patrons of Trena's talk about race, work, class, women, relationships, the media, and life in general....
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families, Second Edition is a historically and culturally centered research-based text designed for use in undergraduate, graduate, and community-based courses on African American relationships, marriages, and families. Complete with numerous exercises,...
The End of Black Studies
Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Following a history of racial oppression and segregation, Black Americans were able to move in greater numbers into previously all- or predominantly-White colleges and universities. However, they encountered normative structures that excluded or distorted the Black experience and denied Black perspectives....